A Syllabus For Thinking With AI

I prompted a detailed specification for an 8 week syllabus with multimedia lectures, online sources, learning activities, ungrading assessment on the subject of learning to think independently, critically, collaboratively, creatively in the age of cognitive offloading.

This course teaches adult learners how to think well in an environment where large language models can summarize, explain, draft, plan, brainstorm, tutor, simulate, and evaluate on demand. The course begins with a core claim: the future learner does not need to think without tools; the future learner needs to think with tools without disappearing from their own thinking.

Students practice metacognition, self-regulated learning, critical reflection, calibration, retrieval, feedback use, and transfer. Atthe same time, they study how cognitive offloading changes what they remember, monitor, verify, reconstruct, and own. Cognitive offloading is treated as a normal human strategy that becomes risky when it is unexamined or used too early.